Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

A Youth Mediator is primarily responsible for facilitating dialogue and mediation between individuals impacted by harm, including victims, offenders, and their support systems. By utilizing restorative justice practices within various settings like schools, a youth mediator promotes accountability, repairs relationships, and restores community harmony. 

All new employees undergo a 90-day probationary period. Background checks and fingerprinting are also necessary for employment in schools. 

Responsibilities include

Implementing Restorative Practices:

Implement all components of the N.I.C.E. program, Including Social-Emotional Learning, Interventions ( conflict resolution), and restorative practices during and after school sessions. Use restorative practices to address student conflicts, bullying, and disciplinary issues. 

Mediation and Peer Mediation:

A mediator, including a peer mediator, is primarily responsible for facilitating communication between conflicting parties, helping them understand each other's perspectives, and guiding them toward a mutually agreeable solution by remaining neutral and not imposing decisions while ensuring confidentiality throughout the process.

Facilitation of Restorative Circles:
Leading structured dialogues in group settings where individuals affected by harm can share their experiences, understand the impact of their actions, and work collaboratively towards solutions. 

Student Advocacy:
Providing resources and emotional support to victims of harm, ensuring their voices are heard, and needs are addressed throughout the therapeutic process. 

Community Engagement:
Collaborating with community leaders, organizations, and stakeholders to build awareness and support for restorative justice practices.

Training and Education:
Delivering workshops and training sessions to various groups, including school staff, district employees, school security guards, community members, and other professionals on restorative justice principles and techniques. 

Documentation and Reporting:
Maintaining detailed records of restorative justice sessions, including participant information, discussions, agreements reached, and progress updates. 

Preferred Skills:

• Bilingual Spanish or Haitian Creole

• Restorative Justice, Education/School Counseling/Mental Health or related field

• Social and Emotional Learning

• Case Management 

• Conflict Resolution

• Restorative Practices

Compensation and Benefits:

• Starting Salary of 55k + ( commensurate with experience)

• The employer fully compensates medical/ dental benefits

• 401K Retirement Plan

• Raises and Bonuses

• Inspirational Job Environment

• Make a difference in young scholar's lives

If you are energetic, engaging, compassionate, tired of suspension and punitive measures in schools, a strong community advocate, and looking to reduce conflict and end violence. This position is for you!
The N.I.C.E. 's mission is to reimagine public education by assuring that everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or socioeconomic status, reaches their full potential and to cultivate a safe and peaceful learning environment in partnership with the school and community.
N.I.C.E. is an innovative social and emotional support program that integrates school curricula with community-building and restorative practices to support academic achievement and mitigate incidents of school violence. N.I.C.E. Team members do community-building circles in classes, provide one-to-one support sessions and mediations with students and teachers, provide restorative support to administrators, and assist the entire school community in building relationships.
We are looking for two successful candidates to support students, establish effective classroom behavior, and model skills to maintain positive relationships with the school and community. To help students increase accessibility to tools promoting skill acquisition for coping, self-regulating, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Monitors and models evidence/research-based behavior intervention strategies.

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If you are energetic, engaging, compassionate, tired of suspension and punitive measures in schools, a strong community advocate, and looking to reduce conflict and end violence. This position is for you!\r\nThe N.I.C.E. 's mission is to reimagine public education by assuring that everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or socioeconomic status, reaches their full potential and to cultivate a safe and peaceful learning environment in partnership with the school and community.\r\nN.I.C.E. is an innovative social and emotional support program that integrates school curricula with community-building and restorative practices to support academic achievement and mitigate incidents of school violence. N.I.C.E. Team members do community-building circles in classes, provide one-to-one support sessions and mediations with students and teachers, provide restorative support to administrators, and assist the entire school community in building relationships.\r\nWe are looking for two successful candidates to support students, establish effective classroom behavior, and model skills to maintain positive relationships with the school and community. To help students increase accessibility to tools promoting skill acquisition for coping, self-regulating, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Monitors and models evidence/research-based behavior intervention strategies.

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